😘🙏Per request: Camoin question 5! 😘🙏 "I get Camoin wants you lay out extra cards to follow the gazes & to offer solutions for reversed cards. But in what order do you lay them out? And how do the gaze cards interact?" 🙏😘 Camoin answers this with some diagrams, shown here. 📖📖📖 So you start with 3 cards face down (my 1st pic). 😎😎😎😎 You turn over card 1 (the past, on the left) FIRST, leaving the other 2 face down. Then you place any gaze & solution cards for card 1 & read that grouping FIRST. Only then do ...

⚪️🔴🔵⚫️ The other day I posted an interview with tarot artist @robertmplace , in which he discussed his 7 Soul Centers reading. ⚪️🔴🔵⚫️ Several people wrote me to ask if I knew what that was. ⚪️🔴🔵⚫️ Oh yeah.... Unless he has recently updated it, here it is: a 21-card reading with 3 cards on 7 lines (1st pic). 😎😎😎 Each line corresponds to a traditional planet & its sphere. See the 2nd pic. Traditionally these were thought to correspond to stages of soul & chakra-like spiritual energy. ➰➰ You want to align & ascend through these spheres. ⚪️🔴🔵⚫️ So begin ...

🌛🌝🌜Per request: coming up on the Harvest Moon / Grail Moon / Mid-Autumn Festival etc! And soon the Equinox. Astro's not my big thing, but since y'all ask.... 😘 🌛🌝🌜 The full moon will sit at Pisces 21', with some interesting geometry between the Sun, Jupiter, Mars, Pluto & Neptune. Traditional astro peeps will talk about a mood of confusion, suspicion & deception that results in anger & distrust. 🤷‍♀️ I'm more intrigued by the Full Moon sextile Pluto, for the heightened intuition & insight that helps you navigate this time. 😘 So USE it! 🌛🌝🌜 The quirky Sabian Symbol ...

🔎🔎🔎 "In my readings, I focus on the present and use the Tarot to gain intuitive knowledge about a situation. First, I gather insight in this way and then I allow the cards to speak for the Higher Self and provide advice about the best course of action. It is like giving yourself a waking dream. I view the cards together as one picture and interpret it like a dream." ~ Bob Place 💞🙏💞🙏💞🙏 Read the whole interview here: https://buddhaweekly.com/tarot-as-spiritual-path-an-interview-with-robert-place-tarot-scholar-and-artist-part-3-of-a-series/

😘😘 Ty for your kind DMs around my recent post on uncertainty & the history of the TdM. 😘 You know, it's safe to leave comments on the post itself! 😉 To answer: while yes it's true that some still say the 1650 Noblet is the "first TdM," this is uncertain & unlikely. But then we have to get into a discussion of what makes a TdM? A certain card order? Specific images? Both? Certain game rules being effect? 🤷‍♀️ You can create the answer you want depending on how you choose those criteria. 😉 Take my first pic here, ...

😎🤷‍♀️ "Certainty is as it were *a tone of voice* in which one declares how things are, but one does not infer from the tone of voice that one is justified." ~ La Witty 😎😎😎😎😎😎 I 💘 all the current interest in the TdM; it's a deck for everyone! 😘😘😘😘😘 So here's my bleg: All I ask is that when pontificating on it, please acknowledge where your argument comes from, which of the scholarly (or not!) perspectives it supports, why you believe it & why that belief is justified. (Or not!)😘😘😘😘 😘 Also please when re-floating views that ...

📏🧮📐 Camoin question #4: "What does he mean when he says all mathematics can be found in the TdM? Ridiculous!" 📏🧮📐 While I agree Camoin often exaggerates & bloviates, on this one he's correct in a certain way. Surprise! 🎈🎈🎈🎈 It's not uncommon in some Tarot circles to hear A LOT of guff about Sacred Geometry. Camoin, like Flornoy, wants to connect the TdM to the traditional French apprentice system, the camponnage (which btw still exists somewhat) of cathedral builders & then onto Masonry. 📐📏 Long-time followers know there is some limited evidence for this at least in Lyon ... ...

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👭👫👬 Here's looking at you, kid! 👬👫👭 Camoin question 3: "What's this Law of Gazes mean? How do you use it in actual practice?" 👀👀👀👀👀Great query! Ty for your support! 😘😘😘😘😘 Remember Camoin never reads cards in isolation but always relies on how they interact. Gazes are an obvious & simple way to do this. (NB: While Camoin claims he invented this, it's just not true. It's been used a looooong time & was certainly popularized by the late Tchalai Unger. But hey, she's been dead 10+ years & her books are OOP, right? This is certainly a low moment ...

😘 Per request: 2nd Camoin question: "But what does a Camoin-style reading actually look like?" 😘😘😘😘😘 Remember that an important technique for Camoin is to place new cards where the main cards are gazing, to understand what the cards are looking at, what's on their mind, what's hidden, or what they carry. He'll add as many as the gazes require. So you'll see Gaze & Carrying cards in his layouts. I've quoted below an example of his reading style from his book, with his own image using his deck with Jodo. Then I've recreated the same draw with the ...

🌚🌚🌚 Per request: Perigee New Moon in Virgo at 6'46," which also brings us into the 13th Mansion for you Picatrix fanfolx. 🌚🌚🌚 As I constantly remind the planet, Astro's not my bag, but! Y'all ask .... & it's a great way to talk more about Minkie! 🤣 Ty for your support! 😘😘😘 It's a situation where the New Moon meets up with Mars, Venus, Mercury & enters into a trine with Uranus. This is all easy to visualize of course with our beloved Minchiate. Minkie: best deck for spells & astro. 🤩🤩🤩 I do enjoy the quirky Sabian symbols ...

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